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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

For the love of flowers....

I am not really a photographer - intfact every time I do try to study photography I get perplexed by the numbers, calculations and all the things that are there involving photography. Instead sometimes when I look at a thing of beauty - I love to capture it - it is more of 'Make it mine' moment when I own that memory forever.

Today while I was staring out of the window and the rain drops were drumming the window glass - I stood admiring the beautiful Lilly flowers in the bowl and decided to capture them. I do not know whether I succeeded or not - after all I feel the beauty of the moment is for every one to decide for oneself - so here it is - whether it is good or not - is for you to decide for yourself alone. The bowl of flowers...

Before I do sign off - the data - this picture has been shot with Canon 7D mark ii (My birding camera), 24-105mm L lens. Since the light was bad (Clouds outside the window) and I wanted the picture tac sharp - I used ISO 100 and a 5 second picture. The focus was the difficult part as the lens was just hunting up and down - so I did the next best thing - made the aperture small so that the depth of field is large. The picture is at f18. For the long exposure the camera was triggered using a remote trigger.

The small brown part on the right is the chair that I did move - but did not notice until I was copying the picture and converting from RAW. I am not too god at using the cloning / spot removal tools of Photoshop so it remains...

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About Me

Retired from Army after 22 years of service. Now pursuing my loves - photography, wildlife (birding in particular) and travelling...I have jumped from Canon to Nikon. (Earlier I had Canon 7D mark ii along with 100-400mm mark ii lens).

I had in my kitty - Nikon D500,

200-500mm f5.6 lens,

1.4 extender,

a battery grip for the camera (Nikon D500).

I have since upgraded to D850 (without the grip) along with its Kit lens (24-120mm). Rest of the lens and extender remains with